Chillida Leku — the art gallery estate created by the late great sculptor Eduardo Chillida in San Sebastian Spain has fallen on hard times and has recently closed. Sotheby’s has taken a dozen of the large sculptures to a Florida golf course, where some of these monumental works will be offered for sale. Sad. RIP Eduardo.

(8 Jan 2011) HERNANI. Sculptures by Eduardo Chillida housed at the eponymous open-air museum in the Basque country—set to close this month owing to a financial deficit—will not be sold, said a representative of the institution. Over 40 sculptures by the Spanish artist, who died in 2002, are dotted around the Museo Chillida-Leku, the 12-hectare, hillside museum located in the town of Hernani near San Sebastian in northern Spain…